JILL Brown may not have emulated her 2024 success by landing the supreme ridden horse championship at last weekend’s Association of Irish Riding Clubs’ annual Festival but she left the Mullingar Equestrian Centre with plenty of prizes and rosettes, most notably as winner of the Horse Sport Ireland breed working hunter championship.

As 12 months ago, Brown, who is a member of the Drynam club, claimed the title with her nine-year-old Gortfree Hero grey, A Hero’s Welcome, on whom she finished second in the Irish Draught class to Cill Dara’s Fionnuala Lennon riding her seven-year-old Kiltybane Naldo gelding Tallyho McGuire.